I have a piece in this week's New Yorker in which I try to find the most pampered backyard chicken in Silicon Valley. (Why? Because a recent Washington Post article stated that, in Silicon Valley, having a pimped-out chicken coop ...

For a segment on the great public radio show Studio 360, I took the uncleanest person I know (comedian Dave Hill) to an exhibition of art made solely from dust, dirt, and smog. Listen here. Huge thanks to producers Sarah ...

I have the huge honor--or, rather, my new book does--of being reviewed by ballerina Misty Copeland on the front page of this Sunday's New York Times Book Review.
[sound of heart and ego exploding]
(Update: And now I've had the opportunity to ...

The new fitness app Sweatcoin measures your footfalls and then rewards you with the app's own digital currency (called, no surprise, sweatcoins). Would it be possible to turn sweatcoins into cold, hard cash? I endeavored to find out. My story ...

Here's a story I did for the New York Times about a bestselling book in Japan that promises--through the magic of thigh-based jiggling--to have you doing the splits in a month's time. The book was written by a yoga teacher ...